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Sugar politics and imports leave bitter taste in farmers’ mouths

This Boda Boda rider was captured at Ejinja area along Mumias - Busia road ferrying a handful of sugarcane to an unknown destination on October 30, 2021. [Benjamin Sakwa, Standard]

Farmers in Western and Nyanza are a desperate lot, thanks to the politics of sugar. 

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